Elliptic adds Circle to Agentic Design Partner Program as Circle Ventures invests
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Elliptic said an affiliate of Circle Internet Group has joined its Agentic Design Partner Program, while Circle Ventures has made a strategic investment in the digital asset intelligence firm. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
The move expands a multi-year commercial relationship in which Circle uses Elliptic’s blockchain analytics and compliance tooling across several digital asset products. It follows Elliptic’s $120 million Series D round led by One Peak in May, with participation from Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank and the British Business Bank.
Circle will now work with Elliptic and other partners to help design and test an “agentic compliance” layer aimed at autonomous, AI-driven financial activity. Elliptic is positioning its stack as a combination of proprietary datasets, a scalable query platform and agents that can detect and process alerts at machine speed while preserving auditability for regulated institutions.
The Agentic Design Partner Program is structured around close collaboration with in-house compliance and risk teams, who contribute real alert volumes, live transaction flows and production edge cases. In return, partners get early access to new capabilities and input into Elliptic’s product roadmap as AI agents take a larger role in on-chain workflows.
“As autonomous systems increasingly participate in financial activity, compliance and risk management must evolve alongside them. We’re excited to support Elliptic as they develop infrastructure designed to help enterprises navigate these emerging challenges and build more confidently in an increasingly autonomous onchain economy,” said Brian Schultz, VP of Corporate Development and Ventures at Circle.
Elliptic CEO Simone Maini framed the partnership as building from “inside the infrastructure agents will run on,” contrasting that with third-party tools bolted onto existing systems. The company argues that agentic AI in regulated finance needs to be co-developed with the operators closest to transaction patterns and failure modes, as stablecoins, tokenized assets and AI-native applications become more embedded in financial services.
